This comprehensive guide to auricular acupuncture and addiction provides a thorough grounding in the theory of Chinese medicine and integrates Chinese medical theory with modern biomedical concepts. The authors take the reader through the practical application of the SMART protocol. Other subjects covered include: treatment protocol and implementation, analysis of current research and accounts of h... Read More...

This small tome is succinctly formatted as a study guide for memorizing TCM eight-principle theory. Pulse, tongue, disease and symptom indications combine with suggested points and herbal formulas to produce a useful quick-reference for test or clinic. ... Read More...

The 2nd edition of the popular Acupuncture Pocketbook has a fresh colourful design. Two colour line drawings are used throughout with over 380 separate points detailed. Colour tabs are used to differentiate each meridian, simplifying the point search process. New figures enhance clarity with important surface anatomy relations clearly shown. Point usage and needling technique is described, and ... Read More...

This practical manual explains a comprehensive, alternative system of diagnosis and treatment of chronic musculoskeletal pain. Medications and commonly available physical therapies often give only temporary relief. The success of the intramuscular stimulation method described here has led to a new model for chronic pain. The manual, and the techniques described in it, will be invaluable to those se... Read More...

The ability to heal illnesses and relieve pain with light is a fascinating vision. Scientists agree that the 21st Century will be the century of photons, as the past 20th Century was that of the electrons. The laserneedles described in this compendium are characteristic for modern advancements. For the first time, they allow painless and highly effective acupuncture treatment according to tradit... Read More...

This book is an introduction to the specifically Daoist contributions to the practice of acupuncture and moxibustion. It begins with an overview of Daoisms contributions to Chinese medical theory and then goes on to present the biographies of numerous famous Daoist doctors. A large part of this book describes various systems of choosing and forbidding points based on timing. These include the Eight... Read More...

The Ling Shu is the second part of the Yellow's Emperor's Internal Medicine. These conversations about heaven, man, and earth and their dynamic relationships are attributed to the Yellow Emperor circa 2600 B.C. and his ministers. The first part is Su Wen, Simple Questions. The second part, the Ling Shu, is translated here by Wu Jing-Nuan in its context as the first known treatise about acupuncture ... Read More...

Divided into three parts, this book covers all aspects of acupuncture and discusses the application of these techniques to a total rehabilitation programme. Written for physiotherapists and other physical rehabilitation specialists. Part One The Basic Concepts of TCM The history of TCM The Basis of TCM Meridian Therapy Traditional examination and diagnosis Technique of treating acupoints w... Read More...

"The essential reference for ancient Chinese medicine and a valuable to research on early Chinese civilization." Donald Harper, University of Chicago The Huang Di nei jing su wen, known familiarly as the Su wen, is a seminal text of ancient Chinese medicine, yet until now there has been no comprehensive, detailed analysis of its development and contents. Paul U. Unschuld traces the history ... Read More...

Tong Jing-Chang's family passed down to him a lineage of acupuncture believed to have originated over 2,200 years ago, before Qin Huang-di's burnings of the books. This family style uses fewer points per treatment, they have different names and are not arranged by channels. Dr. Tong was regarded in Taiwan as one of the most famous and effective acupuncturists. Dr. Lee bought his style to the US in ... Read More...

CHAPTER 1. General regulation therapy with meridians (Ryodoraku) 1. Interpretation of classical listerature 1. Significance of the meridians 2. Five element theory 3. Emptiness and fullness-tonification and dispersion 4. Pulse diagnosis method 5. Proof of meridian phenomena 2. General therapy by Ryodoraku 1. What is Ryodoraku ? ... Read More...

Acupuncture is one of the most popular and widely accepted complementary therapies available to the general public. And yet many of us know little about it, what it can be used for, and how it works. The Acupuncture Handbook provides a comprehensive look at acupuncture: what it is, how it works, and what ailments it treats most successfully. Written for the layperson, this book covers everything... Read More...

Meridian therapy is a school of Japanese acupuncture which is distinguished by its emphasis on the classics, its utilization of the five-phase points in treating the root of disease, and the importance which it attaches to palpatory skills in diagnosis and point location. Japanese Classical Acupuncture: Introduction to Meridian Therapy is noted for the clarity and simplicity of its style, and is ... Read More...

The Su Wen is attributed to Huang Di, the Yellow Emperor, who reigned during the third millennium BC in China. The 81 chapters of the text were written in the form a discourse between the Emperor and his ministers, ranging over material including etiology, psychology, diagnosis, therapy, and disease prevention, as well as ethics, psychology, and cosmology, unified by the theme of natural laws of an... Read More...

This comprehensive presentation of classical acupuncture is based upon direct access to classical sources, draws upon scholarship from China and abroad, distilled during decades of clinical application and academic teaching. The text is intended for all members of the healing professions and the scientific community: including Western physicians and clinical workers with extensive experience in acu... Read More...

This text begins with an introduction to the theoretical basis of the five phases and how they are intertwined with emotion and voice quality, and their subtle counterparts, the five shen. Maman introduces the techniques which can be used to incorporate acupuncture with sound healing. These include fork tuning on meridians on shu points, on the spine, and on ear points in relation to the sound and... Read More...

This title is previous published under the title of: Traditional Chinese Acupuncture. Vol 1: Points & Meridians... Read More...

Through more than twenty years medical practice, the author has experienced a number of difficult diseases or syndromes which were already treated in many ways and in not a few modern hospitals of high rank without much effect, or even resisted to treatment thus forming really difficult and knotty problems. To those cases, according to the theory of TCM and its application, a coordinated combinatio... Read More...

In this important new addition to the Monkey Press Chinese Medicine from the classics series, Elisabeth Rochat de la Vallée continues her exploration of the key concepts of Chinese medicine and philosophy with a study of wuxing, the five elements, phases or movements. Guiding us through well chosen chapters of the Spring and Autumn Annals and its commentary, the Huainanzi, and the medical texts o... Read More...

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This is the first book to discuss this fascinating material in a western language in the century since the Dunhuang library was discovered. The primary sources for this text come from a collection of medieval manuscripts discovered in 1900 in a walled-up room in the Buddhist cave-shrines of Dunhuang, Gansu Province, west China. Dunhuang was formerly an important Silk Road town, and formed the bas... Read More...

The Yellow Emperor's Classic has become a landmark in the history of Chinese civilization. Since 1949, when this first translation of the oldest known document in Chinese medicine was published, traditional medical practice has seen a dynamic revival in China and throughout many countries in the Western world. Elements of this time-honored therapy, including acupuncture and the harmony of human spi... Read More...

Developed over thousands of years in China, acupuncture (literally 'needle piercing') seeks to exploit the body's natural, although invisible, energy channels to bring about or accelerate healing and well-being. This energy is becoming increasingly recognized, or indeed "rediscovered", now that it has shaken off its "mystical" and "occult" connotations from earlier times.... Read More...

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Here is a method of acupuncture which incorporates rapid and deep insertion, strong stimulation, piercing many points without leaving the needles in position and only using a few points in each case. ... Read More...

A unique, comprehensive compilation of information on homeopathic medicine This new book provides an introduction to classical homeopathic medicine. This includes an understanding of its unique view of health and disease, its place (current and ideal) within the health-care system and a taste of homeopathic clinical practice. This text has been written from the perspective that patient well-b... Read More...

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